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Oil well disguised as office building (roadsideamerica.com)
15 points by fbelzile 1694 days ago
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LA's got a few more well-hidden oil wells nearby. While Hope Tower's now gone, LA Magazine had a feature a few years ago that described a couple other oil wells hidden in plain sight. https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hidden-oil-wells/
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Stupid webmasters...

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On Street View they even have a glass-windowed lobby: https://goo.gl/maps/7vJCZtQdpX6DydXV6

It's a shame that that lobby's been closed to the public for decades. Seems like it would have been an interesting place to kill a half hour or so on an idle saturday. Though if you go around the corner on the street view, you can see them doing work on the well, bringing in a crane of some sort

https://goo.gl/maps/w6ujppKu2TDVVSdG9